Stamping machine



S. ANTHONY STAMPING MACHINE Filed Aug. 18. 1926 'Sdney Anthony bywa Mlm Patented Nov. l5, 1927.

tenais STANLEY ANTHONY, OF BOSTON, lVlASSACHUSETTS.r

STAMPING `Application filed August 18,

This invention relates to stamping machines and particularly to stampingA machines Which are designed to print on a salesboolr or sales slip the name and address of a customer.

in the merchandising operations of retail stores it is a common practice for the salesman to malte out a sales slip for eachY purchase and Where the goods are to be sent to the customer or if the customer has a charge account the name and address of. the custornei is Written on the slip by the salesman. These sales slips are usually in the form of pads which are retained in a salesbook and it is a common practice to have carbon copies made to furnish duplicates 'or triplicates, one of which copies usually goes with the goods and furnishes the address to which the goods are to be delivered. lThese sales slips are frequently made out in considerable haste. and the name and address Vis not always clearly legible. As a result there is failure of delivery of many packages sent out from the store because of the illegibility of the name or address.

' t is one of the objects of my present invention to provide a novel stamping machine by which the name and address oi; the customer, as well as any other desired data, such as the number of the customers. charge account, might be stamped or imprinted on the sales slip in clear legible type. Vith this object in view the invention consists of various features which Will be more fully hereinafter described and then point-ed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a stamping machine embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional vieW through the printing head;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-8, Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary under side view:

Fig. 5 is a vievv illustrating a salesbook which may be used in connection With the device; a

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary perspective view;

Fig. 7 illustrates the type plate.

In many retail stores each salesman has a salesbool; Which is constructed to contain two or more pads of sales slips. The sales slip of one pad, for instance, would be used for charge customers, those of another pad for goods sent C. O. D. and those of another pad for cash sales. On the sales slip made out when goods are charged or when they are MACHINE.

1926. Serial No. 129,938.

to be sent C.v O. D. it is necessary for the salesman to Write on theslip the. name and address of the customer.r

.'Fig 5 of thedravvings illustrates asalesbook 1* having .tivo pads of sales slips 2 and 8 therein, the pad 2 being for charge slips, 3 being the'slips used for a C. O. D. purchase. Eachslip has a space 4 thereon to receive the name and address of the customer.' Y

The stamping machine herein shown, which is for the 'purpose of stamping the name and address of the customer in the Vspace 4, comprises a bed 5 lon which the salesbook may beL placed during the stamping operation and a'printing head 6 adapted to carry an interchangeable Vtype plate mounted for movement toward and from the bed. `This printing head is shown as carried by a swinging arm 7 pivotally mounted on the bed at 8. Said rarm is acted on by a spring 9 which yieldingly holds it in raised position for which purpose the arm is extended below.

its pivot as shown at 10 and is connected by a link member 11 to a pulling spring 9, the action of the spring operating to hold the arm yieldingly in elevated position.

13 is a rstop which limits the elevating movement of the arm.

The printing head is a self-adjusting one so that it'ivill automatically accommodate itself to the surface on Which the impression is to be made and it is also constructed to hold detachably an interchangeable l type plate such as shown at 14, said type plate having formed or embossed' thereon type character constituting the data which it is desired to print. f

The printing head comprises a block 15 against the lower face of which the type plate 14 rests, said type plate being yieldingly held in position by yielding arms or members 17. These arms 17 are shown as forming part of a. sheet metal member which extends around the top and sides of the block 15 and has its sides 17 bent inwardly as shown at 18 to form retaining lips for the type plate 14. The side edges of the block 15 are grooved or rabbeted asV shown at 19 and the typel plates shown at 20, said offset edges being received in the rabbets 19 and being engaged by the lips 18. lV ith this construction the type characters of the type plate are entirelybe# lovv the retaining lips 18 so that when the impression is made the lips will not engage the paper.

14 have their edges offset asA lil() C O. D. will have a guide line 36l which is designated Send to and which is situated so that when the top edge of the sal'esbook 1 is positioned by this' guide line the space 4- on the C. O. D. slip will lbe in position to receive the imprint. The bed may have other guide lines which will it other forms of sales slips if such are used.

rIhe self-adjusting headV provides for malring a clear cut impression regardless'of the thickness of the pad or of any irregularities in the surface on which the impression is to be made. If when the arm 7 is moved downwardly to make a printed' impression the printing block is `not square with the surface of the paper said block will upon contact with the paper immediately rock slightly on the rounded end of the post 27 until the type plate-is parallel to the printed surface. 'Ihe head will thus automatically adjust itself into'proper position. This automat-ic adjustment will occur the instant that the type plate strikes the surface and as they arm 7 will naturally be moved downwardly -1 with a quick motion the force of the downward movement will cause the spring 30 to be compressed thus allowing the end of the post 27 to strike the end ofthe recess 29. This will produce the effect of a blow which will cause the type charactersto make their impression through the .carbon paper. The blow effect, however, does not occur until immediately after the head has automatically adjusted itself into parallel arrangement with the printing surface. Vith this self-adjusting printing head, therefore, the printing head or type plate will be automatically adjusted into parallelism with the surface on which the imprint is to be made as soon as the head strikes the paper and before the blow is struck which causes the printing impression to be made, these two operations occurring in sequence, although, of course, in very rapid succession. When the block 15 is rocked or tilted to bring the type plate into parallelism with the surface on which the impression is to be made, the rocking movement of said block will occur about the heads 32 of the screws 31. These heads are located slightly below the rounded end 26 of the post 27 and' in order that there may be no binding of the parts and that the rocking actionmay be free I have made the recess 24 in which the bearing block 25 is received slightly larger than said block so that said block can slide or move laterally in the recess during the rocking of the member 15.

In order to guard against the use in one store of a type plate which belongs to another store I propose to construct the type plates for any particular store so that they will not fit the machines used in another store. As herein shown each type plate is formed at one end with a notch orrecess 37 and the block 15 is formed with a pin or ing,

the type plate ris projection 38 situated to lit into thel notch when the typeplate is'inserted into the ma.- ch-ine. Some other store would have the notch in another location on the type plate with the pin, sponding position and hence the type plate intended for use inone store cannot'be properly positioned in the machine used in some other store. Furthermore, the type plates for any other store may have some identifying marks thereon as for instance a certain number of notches 39 cut into the edge, the number of such identifying notches for each store being different.

I claim:

1. In a stamping machine, the combination with a' bed, of an arm pivoted theretota post having a rounded end carried by said arm, a printing head comprising a block, means for detachably securing a type plate to said block, a bearing plate loosely carried by the block and having a'concave socket in which .the rounded end of the post hasbearandV means connecting said blockl to said arm to permit direction.

y 2. In astamping machine, the combination with abed, of an arm pivoted thereto, a post having a rounded end yieldingly carried by said arm, a printing head comprising a block, means for detachably securing a type plate to said block, a bearing plate loosely' carried by the block and 'having a concave socket in which they rounded end of lthe post has bearing, and means connecting said block to said arm to permit the block to rock in either direction.

3. In a stamping machine, the combination with a bed, of an arm pivoted thereto, a

self-adjusting printing .head'carried by said arm, said printing head comprising a block having its side edges rabbeted, atype plate resting against the block, the edges of the typeplate being offset and occupying the rabbeted portion of the block, and a holding A member yieldingly supported by the block and having retaining lips which engage the offset portions of the type plate.

4. In a stamping machine, the combination with a bed, of an arm pivotally mounted thereon, a printing head carried by the arm and comprising a block, a type plate resting against the block, a retaining member yieldingly supported by the block and having at its edges lips to underlie the edges of the type plate and hold it yielding-ly against the block, said lips being extended beyond the ends of the block, whereby when to be inserted one end thereof may be placed against the projecting ends of the lips and by pressure thereon the lips may be separated sufficiently to permit the plate to be slipped into place.

5. In a-stamping machine, the combination with a bed, of an arm pivotally mounted ofcourse, in a corre-v the block to rock in either thereon, a head carried by the arm and movable toward and from the bed as the arm swings, an interchangeable type plate removably carried by the head and slidable thereon into position, said head having a stop projection and the type plate having a corresponding recess to receive said projection when the plate is in propell position.

6. ln a stamping machine for making a printed impression in a salesboolr which has a plurality oit differently located spaces to receive the printed impression, the combination with a bed having` thereon a plurality ot' book-positioning guide marks having the samerelative arrangement as the dilierently located spaces in ythev book, a pivotally mounted arm and a type plate carried by said arm, iv iereby when a book is positioned on the bed by any guide mark it is properly located to receive an imprint in the corresponding space.

7. ln a stamping machine, the combination with a bed, o'l an arm pivotally mounted thereon, a head carried by the arm and coniprising a block, a type plate resting against the block, and a retaining member supported by the bloclr and having at its edges lips to underlie the edges of the type plate and hold it against the block, said lips being extended beyond the end ot the block, whereby when a type plate is to be inserted one end thereof may be placed against the projecting ends of the lips and said plate may be guided into position by the lips.

8. In a stamping machine, the combination `With a bed of an arm ivoted thereto a.

printing head Vcarried by the arm and coinprising a block, Va type plateresting against the block, yieldable retaining arms at the sides of the block provided with lipsto engage the edges ot' the type plateu and hold it yieldingly against the block, and guiding lips extending beyond the end of the block, said lips serving to position a vtype plate which has one end placed thereon so that said type plate may be slid into rOperative position between the retaining arms.

10. ln a stamping machine, the combination with abed, of an arm pivoted thereto, a printing` head carried by said arm, said printing head comprising a block having two longitudinal grooves, a type plate resting against. the block,A the edges ot the plate being received in the grooves, and yicldablc retaining arms at the sides et the blocl; to engage the edges of the type plate and hold it vieldingly against the block.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my naine to this specification.

STANLEY AN'lHONv. 

